Biography

Anglais

Andrey Zouari is a visual artist born in Stockholm in 1985. He abandons the forests of Sweden at the age of three, bringing fabulous creatures and heroes with him. He then spends his teenage years between France and Switzerland, where he is acquainted with photography. Influenced by Bacon, Munch, Max Ernst or even Antoine d’Agata, he photographs the distortions of his own face, in the confinement of his room.

In 2004, he intergrates the prestigious École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ÉCAL) where he becomes specifically interested in conceptual photography. He emerges four years later with the director’s prize for his family album entitled «Home Family». Home Family is an attempt to conjure a second memory, following a drifting and imaginary Chekhovian family.

Back in France, Andrey Zouari questions the photographic format through the use of other mediums. His quest seeks to go beyond the sphere of intimacy, towards a universal, sacred complicity. Andrey is transported there by entering the blue hues of the chromatic spectrum, a highy vibratory introspective zone. This color singularly galvanizes his work and marks a turning point.

He then initiates the «Blue Gondola project» and develops numerous collaborations: videos, performances, installations and sculptures. He is invited to participate in the Routes Bleues exposition at the Boghossian Foundation, and the Adrien Dubouché National Museum at the Cité de la Céramique, where he presents «Prow my Lantern», an even more explicit metaphor of transcendant movement: the gondola pivots vertically, pointing to the infinite sky as sole destination. Through Blue Gondola, Andrey seeks an extra-sensory, mnemonic epiphany, a luminous shock which splits the world in two and hence questions our relationship to the invisible world.

In the begginning of each of my work, there is visions, related to the blue
color space. They always appear in meditative trance, or dreams.
Everething starts inside this archaic material, impulsive, spontaneus, that I
translate on a matter, a media.

Obsessionally, I try to piece together an imaginary leftover, hypothetical, as
fragments of a forgotten collective memory. During these meditative trance,
the « Blue Gondola » is a vehicle carrying me throw the abyss, towards the
beyond where are singular creatures, sometimes disturbing.

Throw this allegory, is hidding the quest of a wandering of an essential unity,
going at the back of your mind to find the purest intimacy, the most secret,
and sometimes the most grotesque. I come back from these introspective expeditions, with fragments of something new and reinvented in my hands : photographs, installations, performances, videos, sculptures…